I made cannabutter, or shall I say attempted to make cannabutter last night. But it never set up. This was my first time making it. Can someone tell me where I screwed up?

Heated a pot with some water.

Added 2 sticks of butter.

After butter was melted I added my trimmings, etc..

simmered on low-med heat for around 90 minutes, stirring occasionally

Strained out trimmings

Placed in refrigerator over night.

I was expecting a nice layer of butter on top in the container this morning. Instead I found it was still liquid with just a very thin layer on top not even thick enough to skim off. So where did I go wrong?

Try putting it in the freezer. Was it real butter, or an oil-based spread? Oils solidify at colder temperatures than real butter.

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Real butter Im pretty sure. The package said Butter and they were in stick form. But I will check closer when I get home.

you have to get the buttter with the most fat, thc sticks to fat. also use the freezer not the fridge and you should only let the bowl freeze for like an hour and a half because fat freezes faster water and if you let the water freeze it will sticxk to the butter i dont know about you but i want only butter, so what i do after the butter is on top. poke a hole in the middle of the bowl and cut a triangle like shape on the edge of your butter and simply pour out the water inside. then you have just butter left in your bowl. ohhh ya next tme you should use a crock pot if possible and let it sit for like 9-12 hours. or use a reg pot for like 4-6 hours. longer the better. hope this helps

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I've never cooked mine longer than an hour.

According to the The Art and Science of Cooking with Cannabis, there is a chart with 4 time periods, 4 temperatures, and grams of marijuana. It varies from cooking 20 grams for 30 minutes @150F, to 34 grams cooking @300F for 2 hours.

It also states that cooking the plant material to 212F for 75 minutes should convert all of the THC-acid into psychoactive THC.

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Did you squeeze all the butter out of the trim? That is where it all clings to. You seriously have to squeeze the shit out of the material to get all the butter out. I hope you didn't toss it.

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Oh yeah, I pressed the trimmings good when i was straining them.

When I got home today a thin layer had built up since this morning. I skimmed what I could and put the rest in the freezer so we will see what we got in a little while.

i made some last night and i simmered for 14hours in a crock pot and it came out hella good..i used 14grams of some real good weed 240grams of butter (unsalted) with 11grams of fat 2cups of water and a shot of vodka..i hear its important to use alcohol and it sounds like it would work good..i would also think the longer u simmer the better as long as u dont simmer for over 24hours cuz the longer u simmer i figure ur just getting every last bit of thc off the weed

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Well its official, I screwed it up. Put it in the freezer, waited a while and scraped the ice off the top. It was just that, ice... Because now I have 2 bowls of green gravy like water instead of just 1. I can only assume the butter I used wasn't high enough in fat. Is there any way I can salvage this? Perhaps place this water back in a pot and throw in a stick or two of the highest fat butter I can find?

just throw it in some brownie mix get 2 boxes just in case it get to watery